1812
Long Row Mill built
Long Row Mill at Kidsgrove was built as a tower mill.
Site overview
The Kidsgrove tower on Liverpool Road is the surviving structure of Long Row Mill, a former wind-powered corn mill. It is recorded as a tower mill and was built in 1812. The structure is protected as a Grade II listed building and is identified in the statutory record as the tower at National Grid Reference SJ 84025407.
Later records describe it as the remains of an old windmill at Harecastle Hill, Kidsgrove. The tower survives without its original sails and working apparatus, and no detailed operational or closure sequence has been identified in the consulted sources. Its main evidenced significance is the survival of the masonry tower of an early nineteenth-century corn windmill in the Kidsgrove landscape.
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History
Long Row Mill at Kidsgrove was a wind-powered corn mill built in 1812. The surviving structure stands on Liverpool Road and is recorded in the statutory list as the tower at National Grid Reference SJ 84025407. Specialist mill records identify the site as Kidsgrove Mill or Long Row Mill and classify it as a tower mill.
Later photographic and heritage records describe the standing remains as an old windmill at Harecastle Hill, Kidsgrove. The available evidence does not give a detailed account of the mill's machinery, its millers, or the date when it ceased working. The surviving tower was listed at Grade II on 17 July 1951, with a later amendment in 1988.
Its present character is therefore that of a protected masonry survival from an early nineteenth-century wind-powered corn mill rather than a complete working mill.
Timeline
1812
Corn mill in use
The Kidsgrove tower mill functioned as a wind-powered corn mill.
1951
Grade II listing
The surviving tower at Kidsgrove was listed at Grade II.
1988
Listing amended
The list entry for the Kidsgrove tower was amended.
Sources and records
Historic England National Heritage List for England entry: Tower at NGR SJ 84025407
Windmill World entry: Kidsgrove windmill
Mills Archive catalogue reference: Long Row Mill, Kidsgrove
List of windmills in Staffordshire summary
Staffordshire history archive record: Photographs of Kidsgrove Windmill
Windmill World entry: Kidsgrove windmill
Mills Archive catalogue reference: Long Row Mill, Kidsgrove
List of windmills in Staffordshire summary
Staffordshire history archive record: Photographs of Kidsgrove Windmill